On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:44 PM, vishy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to send an email on a user sign up. The email is working
> without any issues. However there is a problem with the :from field
> that I am specifying. My SMTP setting look like :
>
> ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
> :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
> :port => "587",
> :domain => "test.com",
> :user_name => "[email protected]",
> :password => "secret",
> :authentication => "plain",
> :enable_starttls_auto => true
> }
>
> and my mailer class looks like,
>
> class TestMailer < ActionMailer::Base
>
> def registration_confirmation(user)
> @user = user
> mail(:to => "#[email protected]_name} <#[email protected]}>", :subject
> => "Welcome", :from => '[email protected]')
> end
> end
>
> When the email gets sent, in the console I see that the following :
>
> Sent mail to [email protected] (2846ms)
> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:05:26 -0600
> From: [email protected]
> To: Test <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Welcome
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/html;
> charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> <p>Dear xxxxxxx,</p>
>
> <p>Welcome </p>
>
> Everything looks good till here. However when I receive the email, I
> see from email address shows as the "[email protected]" instead of
> [email protected].
>
> Any pointers as to why that might be happening or how I can fix this
> will be greatly appreciated.
I've never used google to send mail, but maybe they force that on you.
Technically the message is from [email protected]. Maybe you can set Reply-To:
[email protected] instead? That might be enough for your
purposes...
-philip
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